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Jimmy Reid, who passed away at the Inverclyde Hospital in Greenock on the night of Tuesday, 10 August, aged 78, was a remarkable working-class leader with a variety of interests and talents.  He was a Clydesider, a shipbuilder, a trade unionist, a fiery speaker, a self-taught intellectual, a loving family man, a knowledgeable lover of … [Read more…]

Comrade Doyle, a long time supporter of Lalkar, passed away in May.  Lalkar sends its condolences to his family and wishes to thank them for the warmth and courtesy with which they adhered to their father’s wishes. His generous donation to our work and his touching words of enthusiasm for our contribution to the working-class … [Read more…]

Southall’s Saklatvala Hall was the scene for a lively and spirited public meeting organised by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) in solidarity with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Saturday 12 June 2010.The meeting welcomed the participation, for the first time since 1966, of the DPRK in the football World Cup, which … [Read more…]

Statement issued 18 June by CPGB-MLWith the release, on 15 June 2010, of the report by the Saville Inquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry on 30 January 1972, the British state has finally been forced to admit what the Irish people, and people throughout the world, have known for the last 38 … [Read more…]

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (CPGB-ML) and friends met on the evening of 8 May at Saklatvala Hall to pay tribute to the memory of its late honorary President, cde Jack, and other members of the Shapiro family.  This was not a mournful meeting but a celebration of the lives of outstanding communists.  … [Read more…]

IntroductionThe question of the attitude that communists should adopt towards the Labour Party has been, and continues to be, of crucial importance for the development of a truly revolutionary proletarian movement in Britain.  While important all the time, this question assumes particular importance in the run-up to, and during, elections.  The general election held on … [Read more…]

Regular readers of Lalkar will know that the 1984 industrial mass murder at Bhopal has appeared in our paper a few times over the years.  This is essentially because this has never been settled – the company that committed this genocide just walked away from the horror and carnage that they visited upon the Indian … [Read more…]

On 22 June the new British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, unveiled his long-awaited austerity budget. It was an extremely nervous budget, only revealing clearly the tip of a mountainous iceberg of disasters to be visited on the working class during the course of the next few years.  There were even one or two … [Read more…]

Scale of the catastropheOn 20 April BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig, based in the Gulf of Mexico, exploded, killing eleven personnel and unleashing vast quantities of oil into the Atlantic.  BP’s own fictitious estimates of the quantities involved suggested a relatively minor leak, amounting to some 42,000 gallons a day; by early May even BP’s … [Read more…]

Background – the siege Since June 2007, Gaza has been under siege and subjected to a land, air and sea blockade.  The 1.5 million inhabitants of this, the most crowded place in the world, have been the target of collective punishment by the Israeli Zionist state, with the full backing of imperialism, in particular US … [Read more…]